nightmares

[Doclector]

Do you have many nightmares? Any of them particularly stick in your head? WHat do you think nightmares mean?

I have nightmares every now and then. Sometimes they're about when I was bullied. I also have alot of nightmares about nuclear war. Most recently, I had a nightmare about some former friends turned enemies dressed as doctors, saying they wanted to help me, before starting some rather "aggressive" surgery.

To me, I think dreams are often warnings of some kind, not in a clairvoyant manner, as in you see things in your dreams that you conciously don't want to admit to yourself, or may have simply forgotten, but deep down inside, you know. Nightmares are merely more desperate warnings. THe issues in nightmares are more pressing, more urgent, maybe you had a dream about it, but you did not understand, or dismissed it, and now your mind must turn to more agressive, frightening warnings. The mind's defenses turn to scaring yourself into taking note.

This theory leads me to believe the nightmare was telling me to be wary of my former friends if they say they wish to make a truce, it may not be so.

Of course, the major concern in taking heed of your nightmares warnings is that the warnings are all based on your own "intel". Your mind may warn you of forseeable threats, but there may be things you do not know of which mean they are not, in fact, threats.

 

[pyrosaw]

I had a nightmare with a gigantic sweaty hairy rat. That is all.

 

[child of lileth]

I have them pretty often. I just don't want to get into any specific examples in the forums. They'd all take way too much explanation anyway.

 

[Radeonx]

Not since I was a wee lad, and I can't remember the ones I had all those years ago.

 

[Berserker119]

I haven't had a dream I could remember since I was 10.

 

[silver wolf009]

I had a dream last night but the details ellude me.
OT: i dont have nightmares persay, but my dreams do induce alot of adrenailne in my system.

 

[JRCB]

Okay, I've had a few. To me, they're pretty commonplace. The most recent one I had started off with me at my cottage. Then, a girl who I have a general disliking towards and her friend showed up. We talk, they try to kill me, and I run into the woods. After gaining a lead, I hide in some foliage, and watch as the friend stops right in front of me. She looks around and walks away. I sigh, then feel something pin me to the ground. I quickly realize it's the girl, so I close my eyes, knowing I'm screwed. She calls my name a few times, but I don't respond. She stabs something into my back, I try kicking my legs, but I can't. A pain pulses through my body, and I wake up.

I've had a few others that were pretty fucked up. Some I wouldn't call nightmares, but they were pretty damn scary at the time.

And I agree, dreams can serve as warnings. And boy, have I listened to them. Especially considering it said what could have been, which I knew it would have gone had I not listened.

 

[Pariah87]

I've had a dream recently that's happened a few times now. The setting in the dream is usually different but the same thing happens, I reach into my mouth and begin to pull my teeth out. The first slides out easily, without any pain or discomfort, so I try a second, then another, then another until I have all my teeth in the palm of my hand.

It feels so vivid and real that I remember it everytime I wake up. Perhaps not a nightmare but it creeps me out because I then have to immediately reach up to check I still have my teeth.

 

[The Night Shade]

I don't have nightmares since i was a kid but when i was a kid i was afraid of zombies they caused me nightmares

 

[Shockolate]

I do not have them often, and I remember them (and dreams) even less.

Although on three separate occasions when someone attempted to wake me during a nightmare, I flipped out and kicked them in the face in self defense.

 

[I Max95]

my most recent one was set aboard a space station
a viral outbreak turns almost everyone into zombies who spout one liners before they kill anyone (cant remember any though)
the survivors were Henry from eureka, Garrus vakarian from Mass effect, and me

and the weirdest thing was during the dream i was convinced i was watching twenty eight days later
a movie i never saw
is that a sign should i see that movie

 

[Datalord]

I was going to make a bunch of obscure political and social references, but whatever

No, i haven't had nightmares, or at least i never remember any when i wake up, nor do i ever wake up with cold sweats or screaming
Although i do have morbid existentialist thoughts while lying in bed trying to get to sleep

 

[Nouw]

My Nightmares... I don't like to talk about them.

 

[Lazarus Long]

The only dreams I ever remember involve me being either utterly helpless and surrounded by zombies, or so blissfully happy that when I wake up to my real life I want to die. The latter are the worst.

 

[Sneaky-Pie]

The truth about nightmares:

 

[Jark212]

I had borderline night terrors when I was a kid...

 

[HeySeansOnline]

Besides the average monster/demon nightmare, which plays out like a slasher flick, I have a recurring nightmare In which through a series of events, based on greed, deceit, anger, violence, etc., the world is destroyed. Its a very odd dream, and It's always hard to remember.

 

[Dana22]

I had ones when I was a kid. Usually, something was chasing me, some kind of monster, Godzilla style.
But I learned that I just had to face that monster, and it was gone.